Asus Z270-DRAGON

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming
Gaming 90%
Aircraft carrier
Desktop
Desktop 75%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 77%
Battleship
PC StatusOverall this PC is performing below expectations (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
ProcessorWith a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics125% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot DriveThe boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS VersionAlthough Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.
Very high background CPU (42%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.
MotherboardAsus Z270-DRAGON  (all builds)
Memory9.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OSWindows 10
BIOS Date20170707
Uptime2 Days
Run DateAug 31 '22 at 01:56
Run Duration184 Seconds
Run User CAN-User
Background CPU 42%

 PC Performing below expectations (40th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor BenchNormalHeavyServer
Intel Core i7-6700-$170
LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg)
Performing above expectations (60th percentile)
73.6% Very good
Memory 85.4
1-Core 98.1
2-Core 172
70% 119 Pts
4-Core 334
8-Core 582
55% 458 Pts
64-Core 574
36% 574 Pts
Poor: 60%
This bench: 73.6%
Great: 80%
Graphics Card Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$499
CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 516.59
Performing below potential (64th percentile) - GPU OC Guide
125% Outstanding
Lighting 170
Reflection 191
Parallax 195
138% 185 fps
MRender 134
Gravity 182
Splatting 126
119% 147 fps
Poor: 109%
This bench: 125%
Great: 133%
Drive BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$62
1.5TB free (System drive)
Firmware: CC26
SusWrite @10s intervals: 72 154 141 146 135 169 MB/s
Performing below expectations (31st percentile)
83.3% Excellent
Read 154
Write 157
Mixed 72
SusWrite 136
95% 130 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 1.2
4K Mixed 0.6
118% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 63%
This bench: 83.3%
Great: 114%
Memory Kit BenchMulti coreSingle coreLatency
Corsair CMW16GX4M2Z4000C18 2x8GB
2 of 4 slots used
16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz
Performing below potential (5th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP
66.5% Good
MC Read 25.7
MC Write 25.5
MC Mixed 20.3
68% 23.8 GB/s
SC Read 13.2
SC Write 21.3
SC Mixed 19.8
52% 18.1 GB/s
Latency 71.7
56% 71.7 ns
Poor: 67%
This bench: 66.5%
Great: 131%

 System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

Typical Z270-DRAGON Builds (Compare 25 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings
Gaming
Gaming 81%
Aircraft carrier
Desktop
Desktop 83%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 68%
Battle cruiser

Motherboard: Asus Z270-DRAGON

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 94% - Outstanding Total price: $427
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